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the_five_signs (the_five_signs) wrote in vas_captio_rpg,
@ 2009-07-25 17:47:00

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!complete, day 17, location: museum, nymphadora tonks, remus lupin

Who: Remus Lupin & ~~Nymphadora~~ Tonks
What: Remus goes out to meet with Tonks.
Where: Outside the Museum
When: Day 17, 8:39am
Rating: PG
Status: Complete

After having had Rose and ~~her father~~ the Doctor check him over until they were satisfied he was as healthy as was possible, the still-bloody young werewolf was thanking them and carefully moving outside, lifting his eyes up to check the sun, since the clock didn't work, and he wasn't wearing his watch. It'd been left back at Hogwarts. He'd miss it, he liked the feeling of it on his wrist. And it was with this thought that he was rubbing his covered wrist, (long sleeves were a savior for bruised and battered boys) and starting down the steps of the museum. He had agreed to meet Miss Tonks this morning, but was hoping he'd be able to make it to the thrift store and find something that wasn't blood stained to wear. He didn't want her worrying over him too. Worrying for no reason, in his opinion.

Once he got to the bottom of the steps, he was looking up again, and trying to remember if the thrift store was left... or right.

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the_five_signs
2009-07-26 02:23 pm UTC (link)

He'd heard her, but wasn't sure what she'd meant by 'do that more often', so wasn't really able to respond.. because she was speaking again just a second later. Calm before the storm? Remus knew all about that.. "We come and go from his home just like that?" It didn't seem probable, but then again.. his parents were rather old. But surely his brother, Regulus, would be getting the house, and not him. He'd always thought it strange that such haughty purebloods lived between muggles..

"About us? There's not really much to tell." There was tons to tell, of course, but he wasn't sure what she did know, and what she didn't know, and what should and shouldn't be told. If she didn't know Sirius was an animagus, then he didn't want to blurt out that he was nearly done learning the spell.. he didn't want to give up any important secrets that could harm something in the future.

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polymorphic
2009-07-26 02:35 pm UTC (link)

"Well, not anyone, course. But those who the Secret Keeper told then yeah." Tonks looked over again, rather strangely in fact. But then it dawned on her. Only sixteen. He didn't even know about the Order. That caused a slightly pained look to cross over expressive features. Really oughtn't be talking with him at all, Nymphadora. Tonks stopped abruptly, nearly toppling over for her own shortness in motion, and really stared at him for a minute.

Then, just as suddenly, she was sunny again. Mostly because Remus had a way of doing that to her. And a way of sort of driving her insane, but that was how relationships..friendships and other things..worked, she supposed. Enough of that, Tonksy. Back to him. "Cheek fibber." About there being nothing to tell. "Finished with naughty spells yet?" Meaning the other boys and their animagus abilities. "Siri fast becomes my favourite puppy. As a child."

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the_five_signs
2009-07-26 10:45 pm UTC (link)

When she stopped so abruptly, Remus came to a halt too and looked over at her curiously, the expression shifting all of his facial features as he did. It was something that he'd lose (or, cover up) as he got older. Strange, now, to see it on his face. This was a younger, happy version of the werewolf, Nymphadora. It would have been ideal to see him in his element in Hogwarts, during the happiest years of his life.. but here, in this glass prison? It wouldn't be quite as remarkable. But it was still different enough. "You likely shouldn't be talking with me about it, should you? Being a future event and all." He smiled then, to show her he understood.. but it didn't mean he wouldn't press for more information, later.

"Naughty spells?" He questioned with a small frown, before it dawned on him what she meant, with the puppy comment, and he smiled a bit. "Nearly. They're still working on it.. he becomes a dog, then? Funny, I thought he'd be some sort of cat, he's always preening and polishing and getting into spats.. What does James become? And Peter? I think Peter'd be a rabbit, of some sort. Something cuddly and gentle. Unassuming. James? Oh, I don't know. I think he'd be the dog, always chasing after Lily the way he does. I'm surprised she hasn't decked him yet. I would have." There you go, Tonks. Just get him talking, and you'd experience something new all together with your Professor.

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polymorphic
2009-07-26 11:12 pm UTC (link)

A natural at paying particular attention to the way people acted and reacted, she noticed immediately the subtle changes here and there. Or rather, noticed what would later change because of future events and circumstances. Really, it made her want to hug him again. If nothing else, they were friends. But instead, she leaned in to slightly nudge him in thanks. "Yeah, there's these rules an' all.." She trailed off though and smiled brilliantly, "Which, if you're lucky, I can find where to bend." There were places to follow rules and places to bend them. Youthful Tonks found ways to dance merrily on the line when she could.

"Mm! He's a bit of a cockadoo, innit he? Sirius, I mean. And would you really! Punch someone chasing you so?" She looked over, laughing.

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the_five_signs
2009-07-29 04:38 pm UTC (link)

Clever girl. Rules were made to be bent, according to Remus-- where as his friends believed they were made to be broken. Definitely not the werewolf's philosophy. They were there for a reason, after all. But when she prompted about Sirius, Remus just smiled a little and nodded, turning his eyes away to look forward. "He is. They all are."

When she asked about punching someone, Remus actually laughed softly and shook his head. "No. I wouldn't. But if I weren't me, and I were Lily? I'd like to think that I might. James has been hounding her for years.."

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polymorphic
2009-07-29 07:40 pm UTC (link)

"Well, if you have the thought now..while you are you..then maybe you've more spunk than you give yourself credit for." The laugh of his was met with a smile. Then she lifted up her eyebrows in a I know something you don't know manner.

By Tonks' figuring, letting Remus know a few things about his friends (the good parts) wouldn't be ruining too much. If he did happen to go back with this sort of knowledge, then at least he'd only be able to chortle knowingly while James and Lily had their spats. "What if I told ya the hounding paid off?"

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the_five_signs
2009-07-29 09:00 pm UTC (link)

And sure, Remus would know.. but he also understood exactly what was going on with this big time mess.. And he certainly wouldn't be telling anyone else about any of this. Even if he had the knowledge.

But it was, of course, impossible to not let knowledge about yourself change you, or what you might do in the future. But as Tonks said that, about the hounding paying off, Remus looked up, somewhat surprised.. then he smiled a little. "James wins her over, does he? Do they get married? Have children?" Oh, that would have been wonderful, knowing his friends got together in the end. It'd be like a fairytale.. granted, a bad one that no parents in their right mind would ever tell their children.

But still a fairytale.

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polymorphic
2009-07-29 09:17 pm UTC (link)

Sadly, fairy tales didn't always have happy endings. But Tonks would only go so far before darting back into skirting topics. She chuckled quietly, amused by his reaction. "You seem surprised bout that. How come?" A nod was his answer as to whether they got married and had children. A child, at least.

"Mm. Snape becomes a professor too, yanno. I actually had him. Right old git, that one." Incredibly frustrating and irritating. "Made me so nervous that one time I spilled enlarging potion all over the place. Including his nose." As she remembered this, snickering, the witch was motioning with her hand over her nose. Which grew from normal size to Snape size with her retelling of the story.

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the_five_signs
2009-07-30 07:38 pm UTC (link)

"Only because I can distinctly remember Lily telling me that she'd rather marry me than him." That had a smile curling at his lips and he shook his head some. He missed her. He missed all of his friends.

"Severus does?" First name basis. But then again, Tonks knew that already. She'd witnessed it before. "He's not that bad." That was said more quietly, but it wasn't something he'd go further in to, because he didn't want to start a fight. No, that was something Lupin would avoid at all costs with his friends. Always. One day, it'd be all of their downfalls. If he'd just spoken up when Sirius had begun avoiding him.. maybe he wouldn't have been so distrusted, maybe Peter would have never been the secret keeper, maybe it would have been Remus, or remained Sirius. And Lily and James would still be alive. But they'd never know, and Remus knew nothing of that yet.

However, when her nose grew, his eyes widened some. "That's.. you're a metamorphmagus?" Oh yes, brilliant little Remus knew all about your kind, Tonks. He had a book and everything. Right next to his book about werewolves.

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